Joseph starts a new era in his life
The brothers go to Egypt to buy grain for the famine
The brothers return to Egypt for more grain
The brothers return to Egypt a third time
Joseph identifies himself to his brothers
The account of household of Jacob that move into Egypt.
Jacob finally reunited with his son Joseph.
Joseph presents his family to Pharaoh.
Joseph distributes grain to all Egypt and Canaan
and makes Pharaoh extremely wealthy. He enacts a statute
requiring all Egyptians, apart from the priests, to give
20% of all grain harvests to Pharaoh.
Jacob gets Joseph to swear an oath requiring him to make certain
that Jacob is buried in the burial cave of Abraham and Isaac.
Jacob becomes ill and gives a summary of his life and blessings for Joseph.
He blesses Joseph along with Ephraim and Manasseh,
and gives Shechem to Joseph as an additional future inheritance.
Jacob Blessing the Children of Joseph
1656
Oil on canvas, 173 x 209 cm
Staatliche Museen, Kassel
Courtesy of the Web Gallery of Art
Jacob reveals the future to the twelve tribes and blesses them.
Sadness and interment of Jacob and the end of an epoch with Joseph’s death.
